{"id":17982,"date":"2012-07-17T11:55:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T09:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=17982"},"modified":"2012-07-17T11:57:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T09:57:28","slug":"samsung-buys-csr-tech-for-310m-in-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/17982\/samsung-buys-csr-tech-for-310m-in-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung buys CSR tech for $310m in cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British chip firm CSR has sold its mobile phone connectivity and location technology to Samsung for $310 million in cash in a deal that boosts the South Korean company&#8217;s patent portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung will also invest $34.4 million in buying a 4.9 percent stake in CSR at a price of 223 pence a share, CSR said in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>CSR said the deal would enable it to focus on developing and selling chips in voice and music, automotive, indoor location, imagining and bluetooth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/17244\/samsung-vs-apple-nexus-sales-okayed\/\"><strong>Samsung vs. Apple \u2013 Nexus sales okayed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/16972\/samsung-loses-bid-to-lift-galaxy-ban\/\"><strong>Samsung loses bid to lift Galaxy ban<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/16590\/apple-gets-samsung-galaxy-tab-sales-blocked\/\">Apple gets Samsung Galaxy Tab sales blocked<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/16448\/apple-patent-ruling-to-be-revisited\/\">Apple patent ruling to be revisited<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/15975\/apple-google-reignite-patent-war\/\"><strong>Apple, Google reignite patent war<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British chip firm CSR has sold its mobile phone connectivity and location technology to Samsung for $310 million in cash in a deal that boosts the South Korean company&#8217;s patent portfolio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,3574,365,52],"class_list":["post-17982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-csr","tag-patents","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17989,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17982\/revisions\/17989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}